A method includes feeding at least one ceramic feedstock into a heating zone of a thermal spray apparatus to form a heated ceramic feedstock. The heated ceramic feedstock is entrained in a plasma gas to form a heated gas stream directed toward a target surface of a CMC substrate. A sacrificial composition is fed with a sacrificial composition feed apparatus into the heated gas stream downstream of the heating zone at a selected injection angle α of about −30° to about +30° with respect to a plane of the target surface of the substrate. The heated ceramic feedstock is deposited from the heated gas stream onto the target surface to form a coating thereon. The thermal spray apparatus and the sacrificial composition feed system are configured to independently control a chemistry and a porosity of the coating.

Methods of forming an environmental barrier coating are disclosed. A method includes disposing a powder-based coating on a substrate, heat-treating the powder-based coating at a temperature greater than 800° C. and less than 1200° C. to form a porous coating that includes surface-connected pores, infiltrating at least some of the surface-connected pores of the porous coating with an infiltrant material to form an infiltrated coating, and sintering the infiltrated coating at a temperature greater than 1200° C. and less than 1500° C. to form the environmental barrier coating on the substrate.

A device for de-icing a splitter nose of an aviation turbine engine, the device including a splitter nose having an outer annular wall defining the inside of the bypass stream flow channel and an inner annular wall defining an inlet of the core stream flow channel, and an inner shroud mounted at its upstream end on the inner annular wall of the splitter nose and designed to have inlet guide vanes fastened thereto, the splitter nose and the inner shroud defining an annular volume. The device includes an annular deflector positioned inside the annular volume so as to subdivide the annular volume into a first annular cavity and a second annular cavity, the second annular cavity being defined between the annular deflector and the outer annular wall of the splitter nose.

A method to produce a ceramic matrix composite with controlled surface characteristics includes: applying a scrim ply to a surface of a fiber preform, where the fiber preform includes silicon carbide fibers coated with boron nitride; infiltrating the fiber preform and the scrim ply with a slurry, thereby forming an impregnated ply on an impregnated fiber preform; infiltrating the impregnated fiber preform and the impregnated ply with a melt comprising silicon, and then cooling, thereby forming a ceramic matrix composite having a ceramic surface layer thereon, where the ceramic surface layer has a predetermined thickness and is devoid of boron; machining or grit blasting the ceramic surface layer to form an intermediate layer suitable for coating; and depositing an environmental barrier coating on the intermediate layer. Thus, a ceramic matrix composite coated with the environmental barrier coating is formed with the intermediate layer in between.

A method comprises discharging from a metal vaporization device a vapor of a metal or a metal precursor to a chemical vapor infiltration device where the chemical vapor infiltration device is in fluid communication with the metal vaporization device. The chemical vapor infiltration device contains a preform containing ceramic fibers. The preform is infiltrated with a metallic coating or a coating of a metallic precursor along with a ceramic precursor coating. The metallic coating and/or the metallic precursor coating and the ceramic precursor coating are applied sequentially or simultaneously.

Provided are a coated member in which damage of a coating film can be suppressed in a high temperature environment and the coating may be performed at low cost, and a method of manufacturing the same. A coated member includes a bond coat and a top coat sequentially laminated on a substrate made of a Si-based ceramic or a SiC fiber-reinforced SiC matrix composite, wherein the top coat includes a layer composed of a mixed phase of a (Y.sub.1-aLn.sub.1a).sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.7 solid solution (here, Ln.sub.1 is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd) and Y.sub.2SiO.sub.5 or a (Y.sub.1-bLn.sub.1′b).sub.2SiO.sub.5 solid solution (here, Ln.sub.1′ is any one of Nd, Sm, Eu, and Gd), or a mixed phase of a (Y.sub.1-cLn.sub.2c).sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.7 solid solution (here, Ln.sub.2 is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu) and Y.sub.2SiO.sub.5 or a (Y.sub.1-dLn.sub.2′d).sub.2SiO.sub.5 solid solution (here, Ln.sub.2′ is any one of Sc, Yb, and Lu).

A shaft failure protection system includes an engine core comprising a turbine, a compressor, and a shaft connecting the turbine and compressor; a first braking element connected to a rotating part of the turbine; and a second braking element connected to a static part of the turbine. The first and second braking elements are arranged at an axial distance under normal operating conditions and configured to contact each other in case of a failure of the shaft and an associated axial displacement of the rotating part. The first braking element includes a first friction material and the second braking element comprises a second friction material, wherein the first and second friction materials each comprise a carbon-silica composite or a carbon-fibre-reinforced carbon. Upon shaft failure and associated axial displacement of the rotating part, the first and second friction materials contact each other to reduce speed of the rotating part.

A fan blade for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The disclosed fan blade includes an airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing ling edge, a convex side, a concave side and a distal tip. The leading edge, trailing edge, convex side and concave side of the airfoil is at least partially coated with an erosion resistant coating. The distal tip of the airfoil is coated with a bonded abrasive coating. The bonded abrasive coating engages the abradable coating disposed on the fan liner and, because of its low thermal conductivity, reduces heat transfer to the distal tip of the fan blade. The reduction in heat transfer to the distal tip of the fan blade preserves the integrity of erosion resistant coatings that may be applied to the body or the airfoil of the fan blade.

A ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component includes at least one seal surface, the at least one seal surface disposed adjacent an interfacing surface for providing a seal therebetween; and a coating disposed on the seal surface. The coating includes an aluminum oxide and/or a silicon dioxide.

A turbomachine engine including a high-pressure compressor, a high-pressure turbine, a combustion chamber in flow communication with the high-pressure compressor and the high-pressure turbine, and a power turbine in flow communication with the high-pressure turbine. At least one of the high-pressure compressor, the high-pressure turbine, and the power turbine comprises a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) material. The turbomachine engine includes a low-pressure shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec).sup.1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec).sup.1/2. The low-pressure shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). The turbomachine engine is configured to operate up to the redline speed without passing through a critical speed associated with a first-order bending mode of the low-pressure shaft.